Recycling

[sen_no_ongaku]

Q: What kind of music do you write?

A1: I don't really know.

A2: Good music.

A3: Music I like.

A4: Contemporary classical music. Whatever that means.

A5: Mostly postminimilast chamber music.

Q: What kind of music do you listen to?

A1: I don't really know.

A2: Good music. Or shockingly bad music.

A3: Music with a driving sense of pulse. Or music that is absolutely still.

A4: I like intelligently crafted, intricately woven music. Except for the incredibly stupid music I listen to.

A5: Music that tries to introduce me to something new. Or music that does something old exquisitely.

A6: Music that means what it says.

Q: How do you compose?

A1: I don't really know.

A2: No, really, I have no idea.

A3: Which is not to say it's some mystical process. I just can't watch myself do it.

Q: Why do you compose?

A1: I don't really know.

A2: Because otherwise, I might as well be dead.

A3: Because I am constitutionally incapable of working a 40-hour work week and remaining happy.

A4: Because every hour I work for somebody else's gain is a waste.

A5: Because there's music I want to hear that hasn't been written yet.

A6: Because there's no feeling like having creatied beauty out of nothing.

Q: What do you want your music to accomplish?

A1: I don't really know.

A2: I want it to be good. Failing that, I want people to think it's good.

A3: I want as many people to hear it as possible.

A4: I want people to love it, and be moved by it.

A5: I want it to be performed and listened to after I die.